| Mayor signs | |
| Council Votes | |
| ZCC revises code | |
| Council requests changes | |
| Council holds hearings | |
| Draft code goes to council | |
| ZCC & experts spend 3 years rewriting code | |
Draft PCPC Regulations
The Philadelphia City Planning Commission has posted draft regulations to implement the new zoning code. Click here to review regulations on registered community organizations, civic design review, sky plane, and submission requirements.
Sign Control Information Sheets
The ZCC has posted an assessment sheet on existing accessory sign controls and a document on the types and characteristics of accessory signs.
New zoning code fact sheet
The ZCC has prepared a fact sheet to answer questions about the implementation of the new zoning code. Click here
Mayor signs zoning code into law!
At a ceremony at City Hall on Thursday, December 22, Mayor Nutter signed the zoning code bills into law. The new code will go into effect in eight months.
In the media
Zoning Laws Grow Up
By JULIE V. IOVINE for the Wall Street Journal
Changing Skyline: Zoning by fiat may be on the way out in Philadelphia
By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic
Phila. hopes new zoning brings more, better projects
Philadelphia Business Journal by Natalie Kostelni, Reporter
Must Council rule land use?
See Inquirer Editorial Should limit individual power and opposing view by Darrell Clarke Council clout needed to help neighborhoods.
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ZONING
City Council gives Philadelphia a new zoning code
12/15/2011 |
City Council
City Council President Anna Verna presided over the last session of 2011 as councilmembers voted to modernize the city’s outdated zoning code. City Council voted 17-0 to replace the current code with the Zoning Code Commission’s Final Report (see Bill 110845), which was approved by the ZCC on November 9 after a four-year public process. Zoning Bills 110844 and 110835-A also passed unanimously. The new code will become effective in eight months. Between now and then, work on sign controls and new regulations for PCPC and the ZBA will continue. PCPC must also adopt the map revision plan and initiate training programs. One year after the code is in effect, PCPC is required to report back to the city so that any issues related to the new code can be addressed.
DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
New report on improving small business climate
11/18/2011 |
SBN
On November 18th, the Sustainable Business Network released a new report written by May 8 Consulting that presents nine recommendations for helping Philadelphia small businesses to prosper. Taking Care of Business: Improving Philadelphia’s Small Business Climate explores how budget neutral, high-impact changes, including changes to the city’s licenses and permitting, can increase Philadelphia’s poor rates of small business formation and growth. The report is posted at http://www.sbnphiladelphia.org/sustainability/download_report_form.
Click image to view graphic on the approval process for obtaining a projecting sign.
VACANT LAND
Inquirer Editorial: City ramps up pressure on blighted properties
11/04/2011 |
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Give Philadelphia a round of applause for figuring out a promising way to attack blighted buildings. Read editorial
Mayor announces new strategy to address vacant property
10/27/2011 |
See Philadelphia cracking down on owners of rundown properties by Miriam Hill, Inquirer Staff Writer, and L&I coming down hard on slumlords, By Dan Geringer for the Daily News.